Lahn River Avatar
24. Juni 2025 - Ausstellungseröffnung „Lahn River Avatar“ von Danilo Olivaz und Ingvild Syntropia
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Programm | Uhrzeit | Ort | Teilnahme |
Eröffnung: Dienstag, 24. Juni, 2025
Geführte Fluss-Meditation: Einführung + F&A mit Danilo und Ingvild: Gespräche mit dem Lahn-Avatar |
13:00-15:00
13:00-13:20 13:30-14:00 14:00-15:00 |
Lahnfenster Hessen Bootshausstraße 8, 35390 Gießen |
Eintritt frei |

Lahn River Avatar
Towards SMBIOCRACY: Nature's AI-Avatars
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD A RIVER SPEAK?
This project explored planetary agency by creating an AI-powered interactive sculpture that serves as a voice to the Lahn river in Germany.
Science and art duo Danilo Olivaz and Ingvild Syntropia traversed the technically and ethically complex landscape of using artificial intelligence to represent the possible interests of a living ecosystem.
The voice-activated sculpture, made from local, natural, and upcycled material, houses a large language model (LLM) which was fed real-time environmental data, scientific research, and cultural knowledge specific to the Lahn.
Installed at the Lahnfenster river observatory in Giessen, it stands as both a poetic and political gesture.
With the valued support of the team behind the online dialogue platform consider.it, the sculpture, alongside its online counterpart, also functions as a collective structured deliberation between people and the river avatar.
Rooted in the concept of symbiocracy, the project imagines rivers, forests, and other ecosystems as political beings, able to communicate their perceived needs.
Building on the success of the precursor Rio Sagrado AI-Avatar, the Lahn Avatar continues to merge art, science, and collective effort. These Avatars offer a blueprint for planetary democracy through meaningful, cross-species dialogue, remembering a future where rivers speak and we listen.
Danilo Olivaz and Ingvild Syntropia are current Fellows in the Planetary Scholars & Artists in Residence Program at the Panel on Planetary Thinking, Justus Liebig University.